Meeting Schedules

First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF

Dan Katz assumed the position of First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF on October 6, 2025. Mr. Katz most recently served as Chief of Staff at the United States Department of the Treasury. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on a wide range of domestic and international matters, including on some of the most consequential international economic issues involving the United States. Mr. Katz has over a decade-long association with the Treasury, serving as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for International Markets, and Policy Advisor in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. In addition to his work at the Treasury, Mr. Katz spent several years in the private sector, where he worked at a global macro hedge fund, and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He was also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on central banking, international economic issues, and economic statecraft, and served as an advisor to the Commander of U.S. forces in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Katz received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.

General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department

Yan Liu is the General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She advises the IMF’s Executive Board, management, staff, and country membership on all legal aspects of the IMF’s operations. Over her career at the IMF, Ms. Liu has led the Legal Department’s work on a wide range of policy, country, and strategic issues, including reforms to IMF lending and sovereign debt policies; central banking and financial sector legal frameworks; corporate and household insolvency and public debt management. Ms. Liu is widely published on various aspects of the law, and policy perspectives such as private debt, sovereign debt restructuring, and good governance.

Governor of Bank of Namibia

Ebson Uanguta is the Governor of Bank of Namibia. He has nearly thirty years of experience in economic policy development, macroeconomic research, and leadership roles in central banking. He began his career as a researcher at the now-defunct Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit, a leading think tank that provided economic analysis and policy guidance to support development goals during the post-independence period. His career at the Bank of Namibia started thereafter and has included key positions such as Economist, Senior Economist, Director of Research, and Deputy Governor, providing him with deep expertise in both the technical and strategic aspects of central banking. He has authored and co-authored published articles in peer-reviewed journals, both regionally and internationally, covering topics related to central banking and the macroeconomy. He previously served as an Advisor at the IMF, representing African nations. Earlier, he was also seconded to establish Namibia’s revenue collection agency and recently served as Acting Managing Director of NAMCOR. He currently serves as a member of the economic recovery task force established by the President of Namibia. Mr. Uanguta holds a master’s degree in economics from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and a BA Honours in economics from the University of Namibia. He also completed several advanced executive leadership programs at Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. 

Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka

Nandalal Weerasinghe is the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He served at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka nearly 30 years in different capacities including Chief Economist/Director of Economic Research, Assistant Governor, Deputy Governor and Senior Deputy Governor. He also served as an Alternate Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the IMF. He has worked as an independent consultant for economic and financial matters for multilateral agencies and global investment firms before assuming duties as the governor. He has published several research papers in international and local journals. He holds a PhD and MA degrees in economics from the Australian National University, and a B.Sc. degree from the University of Kelaniya. Mr. Weerasinghe has been rated ‘A‘ grade Central Bank Governor by Global Finance Magazine in 2024 and 2025.

Deputy Director General for International Finance at the Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany

Rüdiger von Kleist is the Deputy Director General for International Finance at the Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany. He was born and raised in Namibia. He joined the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1991, after completing his PhD in economics at the University of Freiburg. At the ministry, he has held a number of leadership positions during the past 27 years, including the responsibility for international relations in the cabinets of three ministers, the divisions for Systemic Financial Stability, Tax Revenue Estimation, Research and Macroprudential Supervision as well as the IM. Mr. von Kleist has also spent 2 years as an IMF’s Executive Director for Germany.

Ireland’s Minister of State

Frank Feighan is Ireland’s Minister of State with responsibility for public procurement, digitalization and eGovernment, having been appointed to the role in November 2025. He began his political career in local government in 1999 and served as a senator in the 25th Seanad, before being elected to the Dáil in 2007. He was subsequently re-elected in 2011, 2020 and 2024. Following the 2020 general election, he was appointed Minister of State with responsibility for public health and the national drugs strategy, where he oversaw a range of significant public health and social policy areas. In his current role, Mr. Feighan recently launched Ireland’s first Public Procurement Strategy, setting out a framework for the future of public procurement in Ireland. His digitalization and eGovernment brief focuses on transforming public services and improving how citizens interact with the state.

Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan

Hideaki Imamura is Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan for International Affairs, responsible for multilateral policy coordination, including G20, G7 and the IMF, and bilateral cooperation with advanced economies. Since his joining Japan’s Ministry of Finance in 1993, Mr. Imamura has taken charge of policymaking in the international domain. His past career engagement extended to a variety of dimensions, including the IMF, G20, G7, foreign exchange, climate and environment finance, economic security, digital currencies, and fiscal policy. His most recent assignments were Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group and Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for Asian financial cooperation. Mr. Imamura also has rich experiences in international organizations as staff. He was a country mission chief for selected South Asian countries at the Asian Development Bank and took charge of financial resource mobilization at for the IMF. Mr. Imamura received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tokyo. He also earned his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.Hideaki Imamura is Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan for International Affairs, responsible for multilateral policy coordination, including G20, G7 and the IMF, and bilateral cooperation with advanced economies. Since his joining Japan’s Ministry of Finance in 1993, Mr. Imamura has taken charge of policymaking in the international domain. His past career engagement extended to a variety of dimensions, including the IMF, G20, G7, foreign exchange, climate and environment finance, economic security, digital currencies, and fiscal policy. His most recent assignments were Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group and Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for Asian financial cooperation. Mr. Imamura also has rich experiences in international organizations as staff. He was a country mission chief for selected South Asian countries at the Asian Development Bank and took charge of financial resource mobilization at for the IMF. Mr. Imamura received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tokyo. He also earned his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.

Minister of Finance of Luxembourg

Gilles Roth is the Minister of Finance of Luxembourg. He studied at the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg and the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, where he obtained degrees in law and in business administration and management. From 1991 to 1994 Mr. Roth worked as a lawyer. In 1995, he joined the Ministry of Finance, before being seconded to the Luxembourg Court of Auditors and the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the European Union in Brussels. Mr. Roth joined the Parliament of Luxembourg in April 2007 and in 2013 became chairman of the Christian Social People's Party political group. Successively re-elected to the parliament, he co-chaired this political group from 2021 until he joined the government as Minister of Finance in 2023.

Deputy Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the The Netherlands

Steven Collet is the Deputy Director General of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the The Netherlands. He has been working on economic development, trade and investment throughout his career, active in multilateral, bilateral and private sector arenas. He served as a diplomat in Tanzania and Vietnam. He was Chief of Staff and Director for Sustainable Economic Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was Executive Board member of IDH, the sustainable trade initiative, making the business case for sustainable global value chains. Mr. Collet studied social sciences in Brussels and Nijmegen. He is alumnus of THNK School of Leadership in Amsterdam.

Switzerland's representative on the Executive Board of the IMF

Christoph Baumann is Switzerland's representative on the Executive Board of the IMF, initially as Alternate Executive Director, and as of November 2026 as Executive Director. In this role, he represents the Swiss-led constituency of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Liechtenstein, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the IMF's Executive Board. He is the former Swiss Envoy for Sustainable Finance, Swiss G20 Finance Deputy, and co-chair of the International Platform on Sustainable Finance’s Working Group on Transition Finance, as well as head of the Swiss delegation for the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group. Mr. Baumann is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a former WEF Young Global Leader. He holds an LLM in international law from the University of London, a master's degree in economics from the University of Zurich, and is a CFA charter holder.

Deputy Director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development

Franck Bousquet is deputy director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development, overseeing the IMF’s global partnerships. Previously, he was the deputy director coordinating the IMF’s engagement with fragile and conflict-affected states, leading the preparation of the related strategy, approved by the Executive Board in March 2022. Before joining the IMF, he was the senior director of the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group. Mr. Bousquet has also several years of leadership experience in low- and middle- income countries in Africa and the Middle East, including significant work on resilience and reconstruction issues. He led an international effort providing for the first-time concessional financing to middle-income countries facing refugee crises. He previously held roles in the public and private sectors, focused on sustainable development, finance and capital markets. He holds an MBA with a specialization in finance from Columbia Business School and a graduate diploma in engineering from France.